Ranches are to be found in all the attractive places.

Good dry-land farms are to be found north and east of the creek, while to the south are rough, sandy and broken plains, furnishing what is necessary for the ideal of ranching, an early spring range. The warming sun strikes a quick response from these low sandy ridges, and grass, far enough along for grazing, is often ten days earlier here than in other parts where the soil is of different character.

South of the central part of the county, and along its west border, is Sheep creek.

"Feeding Time," Nicholson Bros.' Ranch

principally valuable for stock water for the first ten miles after its entry from Wyoming, the valley being narrow and the bordering lands best suited for grazing. About eight miles north of the southwest corner of the county, this stream crosses the government irrigation canal. Here the valley widens, and the stream flow increases from the waters percolating through the ground from irrigation on the bench lands adjoining. Parts of the valley are well farmed and other parts are marshlike and wet. The benchlands to the west are called Iowa flats, and to the east are called the Dutch flats, both being exceedingly fertile and well farmed.

Spottedtail springs are near the south line of the county, about centrally east and west. The two branches of the valley bear the names of Wet Spottedtail and Dry Spottedtail, formerly characterizing the conditions obtaining. But the building of the government canal, which bends northward into Sioux county at this point for a number of miles, has started a number of strong